Boulet again told the Charbonneau Commission she was never informed that cabinet ministers had to raise that sum every year under party rules.

Former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister Julie Boulet is seen on a photograph taken off a television monitor at the Charbonneau inquiry looking into corruption in the Quebec construction industry Wednesday, May 14, 2014 in Montreal.

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Inquiry counsel Sonia LeBel confronted Boulet with the words of two of her ex-cabinet colleagues who said the $100,000 objective was widely known.